Wednesday, 16 March 2011

Projecteis de funda - Sling missiles

"These sling missiles demonstrate a widespread unwillingness to accept how common warfare was in the past. The cluster of sling missiles made of plaster (A) found in a 5000 B.C. site in Turkey are often believed to have been heated and used to boil water. Yet they (B) are identical in shape to the stones missiles from Hawaii used before European contact (C), and the lead missile made by the ancient Greeks (D) around 500 B.C."